Greece History – the Theban Hegemony Part II
Almost at the same time, the wars that were to lead to the dissolution of the Boeotic hegemony and the Athenian maritime league began. In the Aegean, Chios, Kos and Rhodes, stirred up by Mausolus of Caria, joined forces with each other and with Byzantium, that war of secession began against Athens which is known as the social war of the Athenians (357). In central Greece Thebes, which together with its Thessalian allies predominated in the Delphic amphictyonic, tried by…